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The Book of the Damned
·
Charles Fort
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In
the
attitude
of
Acceptance,
our
pseudo-base
is:
Cells
of
an
embryo
are
in
the
reptilian
era
of
the
embryo;
Some
cells
feel
stimuli
to
take
on
new
appearances.
If
it
be
of
the
design
of
the
whole
that
the
next
era
be
mammalian,
those
cells
that
turn
mammalian
will
be
sustained
against
resistance,
by
inertia,
of
all
the
rest,
and
will
be
relatively
right,
though
not
finally
right,
because
they,
too,
in
time
will
have
to
give
way
to
characters
of
other
eras
of
higher
development.
If
we
are
upon
the
verge
of
a
new
era,
in
which
Exclusionism
must
be
overthrown,
it
will
avail
thee
not
to
call
us
base-born
and
frowsy
peasants.
In
our
crude,
bucolic
way,
we
now
offer
an
outrage
upon
common
sense
that
we
think
will
some
day
be
an
unquestioned
commonplace:
That
manufactured
objects
of
stone
and
iron
have
fallen
from
the
sky:
That
they
have
been
brought
down
from
a
state
of
suspension,
in
a
region
of
inertness
to
this
earth's
attraction,
by
atmospheric
disturbances.
The
"thunderstone"
is
usually
"a
beautifully
polished,
wedge-shaped
piece
of
greenstone,"
says
a
writer
in
the
Cornhill
Magazine,
50-517.
It
isn't:
it's
likely
to
be
of
almost
any
kind
of
stone,
but
we
call
attention
to
the
skill
with
which
some
of
them
have
been
made.
Of
course
this
writer
says
it's
all
superstition.
Otherwise
he'd
be
one
of
us
crude
and
simple
sons
of
the
soil.
Conventional
damnation
is
that
stone
implements,
already
on
the
ground--"on
the
ground
in
the
first
place"--are
found
near
where
lightning
was
seen
to
strike:
that
are
supposed
by
astonished
rustics,
or
by
intelligence
of
a
low
order,
to
have
fallen
in
or
with
lightning.
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